All Colour Reel: Launching by Half

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2330A
Date Released
31 Jan 1974
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1All Colour Reel: Drama Awards
  2. 2All Colour Reel: Launching by Half
  3. 3All Colour Reel: Floods
  4. 4All Colour Reel: Spring Flowers from Jersey
  5. 5All Colour Reel: Cooling Tower Demolition

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Section Title
All Colour Reel
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Launching By Half - Colour. DESCRIPTION: The launching of the second half of the giant Tanker ‘Naess Scotsman’ - at Scott Lithgow’s Glen Yard at Port Glasgow. SHOTLIST: AS pan from building to building. GV skyscraper. SV first half on tanker on slipway. SV houses pan to first half of tanker on slipway. GV Scott-Lithgow shipyard with first half on slipway. SV pan first half on slipway. SV stern of tanker. SV crowd watching. SV funnel on tanker. SV pan first half of tanker down slipway. SV pan ropes feeding out from front, first half moored out. BGV shipyards on Clydebank, pan to second half of the ‘Naess Scotsman’ on slipway. SV the bow of 2nd half of tanker pan up to name ‘Naess Scotsman’. LV second half on slipway. SV workers on top of second half. SV pan second half of tanker down slipway. SV tug out in Clyde. SV second half of slipway. LV 2nd half moored out. SLV 2nd half moored off slipway. Both sections are launched in this story.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Launchings
Locations
Clydebank
Card file number
99654
Credits:
Camera
Keith Medley
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Length of story (in feet)
197
Story extras:

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